Award of Excellence
Steve Winter
Freelance
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"A CRY FOR THE TIGER"
In December 2010, 30 year-old Pancham Baigher was killed by a female tiger in Tala, a small village outside India’s Bandhavgarh National Park. She had killed a cow in a field to feed her three nearly-grown cubs; park officials then buried the kill and tried to herd her and the cubs back towards the park on elephantback.
One of the men driving an elephant was Pancham’s brother, Mogli. Pancham had come to Tala to visit him, and was walking between houses when he encountered the tigress and was killed. The day after, Mogli (right), friends and neighbors prepare his body and cremate him in a pasture. He was a poor villager and father of two young children. | 
